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Milk and bread for baby

Is milk and a little bread enough for an 11 month old baby?

My baby only eats bread, about one quarter of a baguette, and drinks as much milk as he wants. Should he be eating finger foods already? How much? Should I stop milk? When?

(Lucy)

Kids Recipes Team Fri, 12/04/2020 - 14:03

Milk and bread does not seem to be varied enough.

My doctor told me that milk does not have much iron and when a baby is about six months old, he or she wild need more iron than milk alone can supply. That is why pureed food is introduced close to that age and no later than six months old.

Cereals have more iron than milk and they are a good start for first food other than milk - especially non gluten cereals - but I am not sure that the cereal in bread has enough iron for an 11 months old.

My 11 months old would have milk - bottle - and cereal - porridge - for breakfast, a thick soup or puree with potato, French beans, carrot, onion, chicken or meat and a little olive oil for lunch, pureed fruit with cereal or rusk at mid afternoon, and more milk and cereal in the evening. Soon as I get her on cows milk, I will make the evening meal a white sauce with tiny pieces of ham or cooked white fish.

She enjoys things such as mashed bananas and rusks. Because of problems with my older children, the doctor advised not start on gluten cereals until she was 12 months old. So she only has especial rusks or non-gluten bread sticks.

You should try to encourage your kid to eat a greater variety of foods.

(Sadie, New Jersey)

Foodstuff Fri, 12/04/2020 - 14:05
Your are right about iron. the iron supply a baby has when born runs out about six months old and the iron in milk is not enough for a growing baby. Other foods need to be introduced from six months onward.